mitt romney and barack obama for crucial swing states vote in the last leg of an election campaign that ultimately the whole of reality television. the revolutionaries in revolt the most vigorous fight is against libya's topple the regime threaten the new leadership with consequences unless they get more power. in the syrian standoff rebel fighters face war crime allegations after a video of an apparent lynching of pro us troops says online.

broadcasting live twenty four seven this is with me rory stewart shade moscow and with now just four days to go until voting day both mitt romney and barack obama have kicked their election campaigns into overdrive racing from bradley to rally both are desperate to break their poll stalemate something that neither the debates or superstorm sandy have been able to do his auntie's and. on the final scripted rush. to complete the blame game in full swing why didn't you call me when you're working on this thing finger pointing p did make it worse mocking he even called it marvelous which is a word you don't often hear when it comes to describing a budget a tax this president we've all agreed that families are off limits. dogs are apparently fair game what you're seeing is them finally rising up to the level of professional wrestling and i say rising up to it because in pro

wrestling in front of the cameras we all hate each other behind the scenes it's a business. and that's the same way it is for them it's a sham a sham largely compared to reality television survivor style started out limited to be contestants on the island and then event they have to form alliances you can call those parties and then they finally in the grand. you have two three five years to go ahead and they and if you're yes the big gets the big prize the big prize four years to run the united states of america the contestants are giving it their all to win the competition the concept of a reality show we all know is supposed to be some kind of reality but but in reality it's just really made for t.v. and the presidential campaigns in the us are completely made for t.v. like in any major production

a huge crew and big box run the game if they have people determine what a guy's going to wear what kind of haircut how much makeup you know some of this opportunity for a lot of people to get rich from looks to comments and statements most of the election campaign and scripted. the mainstream media following the presidential campaigns eats the show right up one example i'm going to stop the subsidy to p.b.s. i'm going to stop other things i like p.b.s. i love big bird the debate the u.s. presidential debate of two thousand and twelve and on the yes we million that makes it the most successful most popular reality show. while fact checking leaves the building. in the in about is track record about taxes. year in year most of the coverage of the have. you spreading a giant welcome mat for trivialized news coverage is romney hurting obama's

feelings since obama hurting his feelings are they being cordial to each other or are they being angry look at the way obama looks up and looks down the show must go on until. curtains are drawn presidential candidates putting on a performance to be voted into the white house a superficial media paying little attention to the actual words being said and not demanding to hear the words that should matter as the u.s. election enters its closing act elect otay meant and remains king and politics not much more than a circus and. party. and one aspect of the race that neither candidate has lingered on very much thought of america's military for rays a broad. promise less war and more safety and security u.s. national defense expert gareth porter told us here at our t. he's got some serious doubts throughout the campaign and outside the context of the campaign you simply do not have

a lively debate in the united states over this extreme degree of military spending and the militarism that goes with it i'm sorry to say that i don't believe . obama will deliver on his campaign promise specifically to and u.s. involvement in the war in afghanistan i mean that is certainly the impression that he's conveyed to the american people and that was conveyed to the american people by the vice presidential candidate joe biden i think the closest that romney and his running mate paul ryan have come to making a promise is perhaps the the idea that they would somehow be more successful in putting pressure on iran to end its nuclear program but i must say that it was not made with much conviction and i think it is a measure of just how in your the us public and the political system have become to militarism and empire for the united states. and despite the

devastation that superstorm sandy wrought across the northeastern u.s. it has proven to be something of a political opportunity for the candidates of both rush to offer sympathy criticizing the other for action oftenest has been out on to the streets of new york to gauge which candidate managed to weather it the best. new york was hit hard by hurricane sandy will it affect the way new yorkers vote or the way they look at the issues this week let's talk about that i was a county alan sixty floor and i seen every day there would just be water. water everywhere was in the street do you think the government has handled the storm well . how could they have done better they could have gotten the subway running a lot quicker but you think that they have anything to do with how much water is

down there no i think they're just really slow to respond i mean the whole thing with the buses over here is ridiculous and it's unconstitutional that you have to have three people in a car i used to going to vote on tuesday. that no. the city could have been wiped away if the voting polls still stand i have to be there. reacted to it it seems to be going. to be. yes so do you think that obama's looking better than romney right now. i think mitt romney is a much bigger natural disaster than hurricane sandy and i hope people realize that vote for obama you don't think there's anything wrong with obama i think there's plenty wrong in terms of his. foreign policy in the mideast but unfortunately he's the lesser evil the bottom line is this has been a tough time for new york city and most of us are looking forward to putting this

hurricane and the election behind us. he is the channel giving american voters a different perspective every day and the full choice also of white house hopefuls to choose from on monday it is the final debate between the third party candidates it will be broadcast live from our studios in washington d.c. . two parties keep us politics a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power of power. losses american changes. this election will close monday november fifth on our team. it's good to have you with us here on our to today let's shift gears now to the out of libya others are fresh anger and frustration among the people there this time though an oil rich benghazi where hundreds turned out to vent against the

leadership they fought for in the revolution now more on the roots of their discontent from our middle east correspondent paula sleep. what in a thousand protesters have taken to the streets of the eastern city of benghazi they are calling for greater autonomy saying that they feel marginalized by the new government in tripoli now this comes a little more than a year on after the ouster of the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi and i asked ironically that of that the people of benghazi played such a central role in bringing about they are now saying that they were basically off before the revolution that the whole eastern part of the country is marginalized and deprived of political and economic power now what they want is an autonomous region in the east we're talking here about roughly half the territory of the obeah and around three quarters of the country's vast oil reserves what they also want is epping gazi will become the economic capital of libya what this means is that you

will have key institutions such as the central bank as well as the ministries of oil and finance based in the city now this is not a new court earlier this year we did see tribal leaders come together with the same demands they say that they want to manage their own affairs and also have a larger share of the revenue from the resources that are in the east of the country what the warning is that if the demands are ignored they will be dire consequences and so what we witnessing is a growing mood of tension and discontent in the country that is being torn apart by protesters just a year on after the so-called revolution. and his policy reporting right there now is shifting our attention to that of syria where rebel groups have stormed a key military airbase in the north west al qaeda linked fighters are said to be taking part in the assault which could see more high tech weapons falling into their hands by this as the u.n. examines video which it suspects could be evidence of a war crime by syrian rebels the newly released footage purportedly shows

authorization fighters executing captured government troops ten soldiers. no longer believed to be combatants and lined up on the ground before being repeatedly shot with automatic rifles and investigative journalist james corpus says it's a rare example of opposition tactics finally coming under international scrutiny. the atrocities are definitely being committed by the rebel forces and and unfortunately that is being completely ignored because it serves of course the interests of the people who are backing the rebels and who are against assad to try to portray them in the best light possible so we've seen over the months numerous documents coming out from different organization including amnesty including including human rights watch documenting summary execution of prisoners torture the use of children in these conflict on the part of the rebels but that has been conveniently buried in the headlines time and time again and even some of the

reports that didn't know some of these atrocities being committed by the rebels were almost always prefaced by reports of government atrocities and that was buried somewhere down halfway through the article time and time again so it is of course and if the hypocrisy that's underlying this and that's trying to manipulate public opinion certainly in the west to to be on the fours and on the side of these rebel forces the only real plan that's on the table that right now that's feasible is the one that china just put forth the four point proposal for the syrian troops which also does not include any language for assad to step down it does not include include any enforcement language which is a political long starter in washington because of course those are the two key issues that they want to make sure is part of any type of proposal so once again we see that that washington is really absolutely keen to make sure that assad stepping down as part of any proposal and i think they're not going to accept anything short of that so i think they're content to watch these atrocities and and these murders

and executions and torture pile up in the name of trying to get rid of assad and unfortunately the only real peace plan on the table at the moment isn't even being considered seriously by washington. and violence against profile mists flares up again in bahrain with police accused of a disproportionate response on the streets and online the kingdom's rulers are going all out to destroy them to send a report on that just a bit later here on a c i would see a disease to live on and label which you will feel sneaky snacks just a couple of minutes here on the program the backlash of a canadian medics who want to put fear into. horses and bayonets big bird these are the words of internet legend from the two thousand and twelve presidential debates when

a candidate says something dumb or odd to so much fun to make silly pictures like these on the internet ha ha ho ho hee hee but the problem is that the person who wins the bait is the one who makes the best argument not he who doesn't make a verbal slip ups people react to these debates like schoolgirls picking prom queen or rummy talked about big bird who howard dean screamed yeah gaffes don't matter that much it matters if the idea is the candidates present are effective or not but more importantly it matters if they will actually do them if a future can say proposed a brilliant economic plan that could save america but instead of saying pennies let the word penis slip our gossip celebrity culture would make him lose the election for sure he's a potent army of photoshop or sort of hundreds of copper fellas is drawn all over the internet by the next day a schoolgirl attitude towards politics won't do anything except make fun internet

memes but that's just my opinion. more news today. these are the. pictures. muslim rage. pushing. this election.

if you're just joining us welcome to the program. hundreds of peaceful protesters in bahrain of come under attack from riot police firing tear gas at their rally was against the recent ban imposed on public gatherings seen as part of the government's crackdown on reform campaigns a prominent activist has also been jailed six months for posting a tweet sent to the king. of the university of things they'll be no peace until the. to jail so no one for voicing their opinion violates freedom of expression that violated any standard of democracy around the world there is no improvement at all except that the regime has learned to play the world media like a violin they claim they support human rights they claim they are instituting

dialogue with the opposition they claim all sorts of changes and they are just rosy in bahrain meanwhile they could then either crack down they continue the torture they continue to jail and they continue the killings in bahrain majority overwhelming majority of the population over three quarters of the population of bahrain or add on it the royal family which has been in power now for two hundred thirty years muscly they must abdicate otherwise there will be no social be in bahrain and the situation will continue to get more chaotic. but you will find it all. also. all areas of people's.

private companies. these are. jailed for their. over their ethics.

it's you people are very unpleasant to me both on the outside and only in they filled me with extreme negative emotions so much so that i don't like talking about them but i wouldn't put them in jail if i were a judge just because i don't consider it correct that their punishment was in the form of a custodial sentence they've already spent some time in custody that's actually enough. looking back of course it was a three members of pussy riot being found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred. prayer and moscow's main orthodox cathedral and they were sentenced to two years jail but one was freed on probation after an appeal and the women do insist their stunt was political and aimed only at your thirty's for their actions caused outrage among the religious community and ultimately a divided russian public. or into the r.t.

world cup day we go starting with this orange tinted skyline as you see right here a city in northwest china this powerful sandstorm swept through the region and the areas enjoyed strong winds and a sharp fall in temperatures a less than a month ago beijing agreed to extend a multi-billion dollar project to prevent stan storms by curbing the deforestation that's led to increased swaths of does. one of christianity's most popular pilgrimage sites has had its bank account frozen it's over a long running dispute between jerusalem's church of the holy and an israeli water company sites shutting its doors for a day in protest the church is supposed to be built on the place where jesus christ was crucified and was exempt from water fees until a few years ago when it was asked to start paying. the european union has offered more than one hundred million dollars in development aid to me and mine at the

block suspended sanctions against the asian state and has been blown. since april after political reforms then the cash injection comes despite europe's ongoing debt crisis and zeroes on unemployment hits new records. and a diving deep into low standards and high finance that will be in the next hour here's what's to come in the kaiser report. mind you i'm included all right here it's got all you need to flick massive pain on this possessed devil of finance on wall street and you can activate it various locations here it's cause serious genital discomfort so it's right there oh damn that's gotta hurt buddy we're asking him about right here in the head right here near your blitz master's a smart brain cells there you go j.b. and you know that.

our cars report later this hour here on our t.v. for now though a medics in canada have come up with a very explicit way of warning against the health risks of obesity but critics say the alarming labeling will on fairly and accurately equate every day meals and drinks with more harmful substances like tobacco and alcohol some bottom explains. imagine you're about to bite into your pizza when you see this disease liver or perhaps you're taking a swig of your drink when this diseased foot catches your eye put off your food well that's just the effect some doctors in canada want frustrated with a growing epidemic of obesity the entire medical association have taken a leaf from their anti smoking contemporary's book and called for graphic labeling on fatty sugary and salty processed foods they say society must stop tiptoeing around health risks such as diabetes heart and liver disease which can arise from eating too much of certain foods what we want to do is we want to tax foods that

are high in calories in the nutritional value and get tax breaks the healthy food but as you might imagine the shock food tactics have been hard to swallow for those who make or enjoy eating the targeted products they think the labels are over the top and accuse doctors of demonizing certain products and food cut to grease carrying bacco to every day and beverage items non-sensical smoking tobacco products do not really have a balance in a healthy place that various food and beverage products which the ontario medical association would place label warnings on i can absolutely heart of a balance other proposals that have sparked controversy include labeling excessive salt sugar and fat as pathogens that is disease causing viruses and bacteria age

limits for buying soft drinks and temporarily taking some obese children away from their parents william endl author of seeds of destruction says the doctors are right about the dangers of highly processed foods but that these labels will simply be ignored i don't know any single cigarette smoker who you know they pick up their cigarettes and. they're obliged to label it i don't think that that stuff. but if the photos are engineer today and this has been posted in private lab the borders of foods are engineers today in many cases to be addicted to stimulate the pleasure center of the brain so until you forced by law to change that kind of a who can't and you're not going to have any solution to this my mother theo and they also recommends higher taxes and marketing restrictions on junk food especially to children to to stick suggest twenty six percent of canadian children aged five to seventeen are overweight or obese. it is good to have you with us here at oxford today in half an hour's time my colleague kevin know nobody here up ahead

though a host of the modern takes a closer look at the nature of the true party system in the u.s. that's and breaking the set in just a few minutes. means in this story even for specialists how a voice can produce several sounds it warms. the art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like a language. a language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from the names believe not only animals but also surrounded objects like

reverse forests and even stones of souls imitating the sounds they believe assumes to capture the power of nature. was. one of the five main styles of groups and it imitates the gentle breezes of summer chara whose name means great hunter says the first piece adopted. to our special instruments that accompany the singing if danny says there is even a legend about his instrument a gill it says it wants to leave to poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed it on the horse was revived as an instrument look at those that have so pitiful is go. spirit of the horse came to his dream he said make an instrument from

a tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings from my tail and to remember me make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so i called the instrument again which means come back and this melody only suman is called cry over again.

here's mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a donor night concludes the longest and while this campaign in our history colors the left well that may be changing dramatically before our eyes that some are going to show you next time with twists and turns in the hallmarks of this campaign and what you like but we're going to do if you've never seen anything like this until.

some guys i'm having martin and this is breaking the set so let's talk about tasers and i was shocked to hear about a news story coming out of an elementary school in new mexico where career day presentation by a police officer resulted in a ten year old student taking a fifty thousand volt taser shot to the chest that's right the new mexico cop tase a ten year old why you may as well because the kid refused to clean his cop car aside from thinking what the hell is this world coming to this story got me thinking about how dangerous these supposedly less than lethal weapons are the boy's family filed a lawsuit citing that he could have faced death or serious bodily injury from getting tase did you know that there have been around five hundred taser related deaths in the u.s. since two thousand and one but i guess that's not enough death to constitute reevaluation of how our law enforcement.